Wurzel

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So the UK has to pay for the French police and security now. AFAIK we paid for the fence and CCTV already round Calais port. I have also seen reports of French police just standing on the beach watching people get into small boats. I also read an article yesterday that said if the small boats are offered help but refuse then under the law there is nothing the French authorities can do to stop them leaving.

They just wait until they get to the middle of the channel and get the UK Border Force to pick them up.

I can't see this deal changing anything as the French don't want them any more than we do so why would they stop them from leaving France in the first place?

https://news.sky.com/story/sunak-say...rance-12746975

"Maritime law dictates that only vessels or passengers in distress receive assistance from the coastguard on patrol. And it seems that this boat has refused help. All the French authorities can do is trail behind until the dinghy arrives in British waters."

You would have thought though that a criminal offence being committed would superseed any maritime law. It seems to work ok for the Navy boarding drug smuggling boats and then sinking them.

https://news.sky.com/story/trafficke...annel-12746587

markjmd

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It doesn't have to at all, it's just choosing to, because our govt has decided it prefers that option over investing more in processing/evaluating asylum claims.

IdonthaveaScooby

The US should be compensating on the basis of its destruction of Libya and Syria

because this is the reason for the desperation / migration

IdonthaveaScooby

Our wonderful Brexit futures

BMWhere?

Is it me, or have the Brexiteers on here gone very quiet lately?
Why are they not here telling us how wonderful the sunlit uplands are?
How fantastic it is now that we have taken back control of our borders?
How our fishing industry is now booming having taken back control of our fishing waters?
How our farmers are benefitting from the slashing of all that red tape?

Wurzel

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Alastair, are you baiting the sheep again?

IdonthaveaScooby

Well Andy ducked out the forum February as far as I can see

trails

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They will back in two terms time; after the Tories lose the next election and Labour lose the one after that...

IdonthaveaScooby

How did this person Ever get the peoples approval

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Hmmmmmmm!!! Who'da thunk it

https://news.sky.com/story/poll-reve...e-low-12749439

trails

iTrader: (41)

****ing ejits.

BMWhere?

Shame they couldn't have worked that out before they voted to leave

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Awkward:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statis...n#Key_findings

Wish they could have put the UK in there so we can satisfy the medias thirst of proving how sh*t things are.

BMWhere?

Google is your friend! Child poverty in the UK is around 22%, up from around 20% last year. Slightly below the EU average according to that article, but of course the measures may be different so a direct comparison is difficult. The worrying point is the increase in child poverty, which is only likely to increase as the effects of Brexit become more acute!

IdonthaveaScooby

I suspect this has a sizeable amount to do with covid mandates

it has only increased the divisions between rich and poor

more than possibly on purpose

BMWhere?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63714944
You can't make this siht up! ​​​​​​​

IdonthaveaScooby

All aboard for another crash ! , yet another brexit bonus for very very nearly no-one

https://www.ft.com/content/7fd1b000-...9-611fde48f7ba

mrtheedge2u2

yep...it appears they forget the 2008 issues

BMWhere?

That's what Brexit was all about! All the racist anti-immigrant bull was just to get the sheep to vote for it! As you can see, immigrant numbers haven't fallen, there are just more brown immigrants now rather than EU immigrants!

Think it may be time to move my savings out of the UK, just need the £ to recover a bit!

IdonthaveaScooby

Is it surprising or not ,that we haven't heard from Andy on just how well the country is benefitting ?

JackClark

lockheed

iTrader: (1)

you don't live in the uk so you don't count ,have you seen whats happened to the dry lining trade on the big building sites in uk ?

lockheed

iTrader: (1)

You don't count because you don't live in this galaxy 😂

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Another BREXIT success story.

"Two years past Brexit and we now live with the reality that the way the rules are interpreted can change from one day to the next."

https://news.sky.com/story/a-glitch-...ption-12780652

JackClark

Christmas was a joy for me a very small business occasionally selling to the EU as 'Can't be arsed' was added to the rejection reasons used by customs. 'Can't be arsed' was previously reserved for customers.

I'm still bitter.

stockcar

?? customs wrote "can't be arsed" ??

JackClark

That one sat since November at Belgian customs then returned to me with no contact to the customer and no reason stated. As that's the case - and not the usual customer refusal due to Brexit tax - I can't charge for the postage so bigger loss.

BMWhere?

A huge Brexit benefit... for the rest of the EU! So much for the EU collapsing in the wake of Brexit, rather the opposite is happening and the EU is more popular than ever!

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/how...e-eu-stronger/

Support for leaving EU has fallen significantly across bloc since Brexit | European Union | The Guardian

IdonthaveaScooby

How stupid do the tories think we all are ( dont answer that )

levelling up should mean more jobs , not a few new buildings / park benches


hope they get a good kicking come election time

Hol

iTrader: (1)

Not unexpected.

I remember one film crew interviewed two old ladies in the street, who said that they voted yes as a stand against the government.

When pressed they didn’t understand what the vote meant.

They are probably in the top 10% of that list.